So I would take a different turn than Matt took. I would say, if you are the kind of person who aspires to be rational, or who self-identifies as rational, the main danger you need to watch out for is not politesse but *self-deception*.
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A world built by Reason will not be ruled by a council of tech bros. It will be small-d democratic, messy, iterative, flawed, humble, biased toward compassion over judgment. That's what's effective in actual human affairs -- ie, that's what's rational!
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In other words, if rationalists really cared about being rational, they'd become democratic socialists. Sorry this got so long. </fin>
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All hail Robertsian Meliorism! Yes, this viewpoint looks to correct the course of the journey towards reason. Humility must be an integral foundation of the rationalist mindset. Was it not Socrates that founded the Western pursuit of reason on his own foolishness?
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I would pay good money to see you,
@hankgreen and@BarackObama have some long discussions about these things. Hopefully resulting in some concrete ideas on how to make America better. -
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THX 1138 is coming to mind. We don’t live well within abstract ideals, no matter how well-implemented.
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This is the central disconnect I think. What to do about "actually existing humans". The bros you describe usually assume, explicitly or implicitly, that either 1) they would be able to convince the "existing humans" if lying SJWs weren't messing it all up or 1/x
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2) the existing government should turn over its powers to the bros and the bros could then force the "existing humans" to comply. Both approaches are spectacularly inconsistent with human experience.
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